FIELD NOTES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1893

FIELD NOTES.

THE missionary society at Tampa, Florida, numbers thirty-two active workers, who are engaged in an effort to visit every house in the city.

FROM a private letter from one not of our faith we learn that our brethren in Ellicottville, N. Y., recently dedicated the handsomest church building in the place.

THE church and mission house at 249 Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, was dedicated November 4. The same day Brother C. L. Taylor, a teacher in Mt. Vernon (Ohio) Academy, was ordained to the ministry.

BROTHER T. D. WALLAR reports fourteen Sabbath keepers in Santa Cruz, Cal., with a very determined opposition on the part of the ministers of the city. Elder D. C. Hunter, who labored for a time in that place, has located at Gilroy.

OF the work in Butte, Mont., Elder J. W. Watt writes to the Bivouac that the meeting hall is sometimes too small to accommodate those who desire to attend. November 11 eight were baptized, one of whom was a man 82 years old. Two were infidels when the meetings were commenced.

A BAPTIST pastor in Athens, N. Y., says of "Bible Readings for the Home Circle:" "I would cheerfully commend this book. It is packed full of Bible learning, and is far better for common use than most commentaries." A Methodist minister at Vestal, N. Y., says: "It makes plain many subjects that are obscure to the general reader, and unfolds the prophetic portion so that all can arrive at an understanding of the 'sure word of prophecy.'"

ELDER D. T. BOURDEAU reports the organization of a French church of twenty-three members at McDonald, Pa. He also reports the conversion of a half dozen heads of families among the Scotch miners in the same vicinity, and the organization of a Sabbath school of twenty-eight members.

AT South Bolton, Quebec, November 11, an elder and deacon were ordained and two united with the church. Other additions have been made to the faith in Boynton, and other interested ones are reported by Elder J. B. Goodrich, who has charge of the work in that province. Elder H. E. Rickard notes the baptism of six at Cantley, five of whom united with the church at Buckingham.

A GENERAL meeting is now in progress in New Zealand, the appointment having been set for November 23 to December 12. The Australian general meeting is appointed for December 29 to January 12. A change in the time of the Australian meeting was necessitated on account of the plans of Elder Olsen, president of the General Conference, who designs to spend the month of December in New Zealand and the month of January in Australia, returning from Melbourne to London direct.